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GAL]? WEANER. No. 328,675. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD P. HENRY, OF EAGLE ROCK, IDAHO TERRITORY.

CALF-WEANER.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,675, dated October 20, 1885 Application filed January 9, 1885. Serial No. 152,405.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD PARKER HENRY, of Eagle Rock, in the county of Oneida, Idaho Territory, have invented a new and Improved OalfWVeaner, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved device for attachment on the nose of a calf to prevent the calf sucking the cows, and thus compelling it to eat grass.

The invention consists of two plates pivoted to each other at the edges, each plate being provided with a curved prong at the upper inner corner. A key is provided for locking the two plates together.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face View of my improved calfweaner. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side View of the same.

Two semicircular plates, A, each having a recess or notch,B,at the upper end of astraight edge and each having a flange, O, on the same surface along the straight edge, are pivoted to gether at upper ends of the flanges O by a pin,D, passing through the flanges, thus adapting the two plates to be swung into different planes.

At the free ends the flanges G are provided with apertures for receiving a springkey, E. Along the curved edges of the recesses or notches B ridges F are formed, which termilMoilcl.)

nate in rounded prongs G, projecting toward each other, their free ends being a short dis tance apart.

The above-described device may be made of sheet-iron, cast-iron, brass, celluloid, prepared paper, hard rubber, or any other suitable material.

To apply the weaner the spring-key E is removed and the plates A turned to be at right angles to each other,whereby the prongs G are separated sufficiently to permit passing them into the nostrils of a calf, whereupon the plates are swung together to be in the same plane and are locked together by means of the spring-key E. The weaner is thus held on the animals nose and hangs over the upper lip. It prevents the calf from sucking the cow, but permits it to eat grass.

The weaner can be applied and removed very easily and rapidly without paining or injuring the animal.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a calf-weaner, the combination, with the pivoted plates A, having flanges G and curved prongs G, of the springkey E, substantially as herein shown and described.

E. P. HENRY.

Witnesses:

G. B. WHEELER, E. E. CALVIN. 

